Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience

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Synopsis
Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature’s engagement with neuroscience. This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain’s relationship to the self. Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers—including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay—analyzing the way they experiment with literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self. He argues that their work offers a necessary counterbalance to a wider cultural neuromania that seeks out purely neural explanations for human behaviors as varied as reading, economics, empathy, and racism. Building on recent scholarship, Tougaw’s evenhanded account will be an original contribution to the growing field of neuroscience and literature.
Copyright:
2000

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780300235609
Related ISBNs:
9780300221176
Publisher:
Yale University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Marcia Bartusiak
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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